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R.U. JOHNSON RESIGNS AS CENTURY'S EDITOR; Robert Sterling Yard Succeeds Him in Charge of the Magazine.

Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of The Century Magazine since 1910 and associated with it in an editorial capacity for forty years, has tendered his resignation and it has been accepted. He finished his work on Thursday. Robert Sterling Yard, formerly of the publishing house of Moffat, Yard Co. and recently a member of the staff of THE NEW YORK TIMES, succeeds Mr. Johnson with the title of managing editor.

May 31, 1913

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